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What Happened to Grant's Tasti Burgers After Food Paradise?

Food Paradise, Season 13 Costa Mesa, California

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Grant's Tasti Burgers was a seasonal concession at a fair or festival -- not a year-round restaurant, and it does not operate as a standalone business.

What the source shows: The OC Fair's own food-vendor page, updated August 7, 2026, lists Tasti Burgers as a concession in the fair's Main Mall, and Food Paradise's 13th season (2017-18) featured Grant's Tasti Burgers' Chile Relleno Pretzel Cheeseburger at the Orange County Fair in Costa Mesa. It is a seasonal fair concession, not a year-round restaurant. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

On 'Midway Munchies,' the show featured Grant's Tasti Burgers, spotlighting the vendor's novelty pretzel-bun burger creations at the OC Fair. The stand, run by Lori Southerland, has for years operated alongside its sister stand Tasti Chips in the fairgrounds' Livestock Area, according to past SoCal Restaurant Show coverage. Grant's Tasti Burgers remains listed today as a current food item on the OC Fair's own website, ocfair.com, whose pages were live and current as of a 2026-09-09 check. The Orange County Fair itself continues annually at the 150-acre OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa, with the 2026 fair having run July 17 through August 16. As a fair-season concession rather than a year-round storefront, the stand has no fixed street address of its own.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 13

Episode 2
Air date not confirmed
Title: Midway Munchies · What was featured: novelty pretzel-bun burger creations at the OC Fair
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. ocfair.com https://ocfair.com/food-item/tasti-burger/
  2. socalrestaurantshow.com https://socalrestaurantshow.com/tag/grants-tasti-burgers/
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Record fp-0984 · checked by Cal Marchetti.